CASTLEGAR NEWS Thursday, June 18, 2015
Vol.12 • Issue 25
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Castlegar Cubs win playoffs
Colourful mural installed
Local team is 2015 West Kootenay Little League Major Baseball champion. See page 17.
Place name series hits 100
Three-piece artwork now adorns Castlegar Community Services Society building. See page 14.
Regular feature on local toponymy now into the Ks. See the West Kootenay Advertiser.
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Decked out in their gowns, girls in the Stanley Humphries graduating class took a moment to pose for us last week. BETSY KLINE Castlegar News
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Just over 100 smiling Stanley Humphries graduates crossed the stage, flipped their tassels and accepted their diplomas Friday evening in a ceremony held at Selkirk College. Congratulations and encouragements were offered by Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy, superintendent Greg Luterbach, trustee Rosann Brunton and Mayor Lawrence Chernoff.
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Principal Aaron McKenzie summarized the Class of 2015 with the word resilience. “Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from most difficulties,” he said. McKenzie mentioned trials the class has faced including an early end to their Grade 11 and late start to their Grade 12 year and a fire that interrupted the current school year. In his speech, valedictorian Tristan Wheeler took the class on a trip down memory lane, reminding his fellow students of the Grade 8 versions of themselves
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before bringing them up to the present and looking into the future. “As that distant speck grew closer and proved to be more than a speck; rather, it became a boulder larger than the tallest mountain,” he said. “We had gone from adapting to the school to the school adapting to us. After what has felt like eons, we’re ready to climb that mountain in record time.” Over 70 scholarships and bursaries were handed
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